User talk:Edward

Speedy deletion nomination of Julie Sussman

A tag has been placed on Julie Sussman requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

This page used to be redirected to SICP. SICP is a book, not a person. She is an author of the book, hence it is misleading to redirect from a person's page to a book she has written. Since there is no content for this page, I am requesting a speedy deletion. Just in case, someone decides to write an article about her, it can be restored. This article seems unnecessary as of now (given that it has no content anyway).

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. 2Dpedia (talk) 09:11, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

404 error

Hey Edward, just wanted to note I am getting a 404 error from Find Links :( Its one of my favourite tools, Sadads (talk) 23:36, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. I've fixed it. Thanks for letting me know. Edward (talk) 08:18, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of 123-reg

Hello Edward,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged 123-reg for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. AssortedLiquorice (talk) 10:22, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nathanael Kapner

I just undid a piping of a link you had put in at Nathanael Kapner. The existing Wikilink for War on Christmas was already being redirected to Christmas controversy, to which you piped it. For the reasons discussed at WP:NOTBROKEN, it's best to let such redirects do their work, rather than piping to the redirected page. Thanks for your efforts to improve Wikipedia! --Nat Gertler (talk) 19:49, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

trafficking in Egypt

Hi Edward,

Just curious if you have any contacts in Egypt that are working on or against trafficking or interacting with victims. Thanks! Bonita Bgparson (talk) 07:00, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Happy adminship day

Wishing Edward a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Tito Dutta (talk) 17:36, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Find links

Where has find links gone? I can't find it these days. Pkeets (talk) 02:32, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind. I found it with a search. Pkeets (talk) 02:36, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Admin help request

I need some help, I need an administrator to stop a person with the IP 198.134.93.254 from undoing accurate data from the Steppenwolf Band Wiki page.... the person is married to a former band member and she has a vendetta out for other band members because her husband was fired from the band several times — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:601:C700:D3DE:65AB:E430:572B:1026 (talk) 15:50, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Category:24-hour television news channels has been nominated for discussion

Category:24-hour television news channels, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. PanchoS (talk) 16:08, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Impossibility theory listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Impossibility theory. Since you had some involvement with the Impossibility theory redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 19:45, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I decided to be bold instead. Comments welcome, though. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 19:50, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

May 2016

Hello Edward, Peter SamFan has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Peter Sam Fan 20:15, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Mesoamerican region

Hi Edward - I see you've been mass linking Mesoamerican articles to Mesoamerican region - however, that article is an article on the modern economic region, not the cultural region, and it is not relevant to the vast majority of the articles you have linked - please check the target article before performing mass links like this. Thanks, Simon Burchell (talk) 19:05, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know, much appreciated. Edward (talk) 19:30, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Big bonus culture listed at Redirects for discussion

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Category:Commerce has been nominated for discussion

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Elizabeth II Queen of Great Britain listed at Redirects for discussion

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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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Mini-job listed at Redirects for discussion

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Hi, my name is Regina and I'm native Spanish speaker. Recently I wrote an article about Café El Jarocho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thelmadatter/Café_El_Jarocho , and i would like to know if you could please check it out and give a general opinion or advice. I will be very thankful. Regina mabe (talk) 18:10, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Edward.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Nomination of Financial econometrics for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Financial econometrics is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Yo Ho Ho

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404 error for Find Link

Happy New Year, Edward! I'm getting a 404 error on your great Find Link tool. Could you please ping me when it's up and running again? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:17, 7 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for getting FindLink working again. Would you be able (and willing) to use your FindLink logic to go through Category:All orphaned articles and provide a report of articles that could possibly be manually deorphaned using FindLink? If it could be deorphaned, the user would manually remove {{orphan}}. If not, the user could att |att= to {{orphan}}, and the report could ignore those articles in future runs. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:36, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@GoingBatty: Good idea, I'll add this to my todo list. Edward (talk) 20:38, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! Any chance this ever made it to the top of your to do list? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:32, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Edward a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Lepricavark (talk) 19:58, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Montreal

Hi Edward, long time no speak. I've put a submission in for Montreal this year, and I was wondering if you'd have a chance to move the prototype on by then as it is still one of the best tools I use. Ϣere SpielChequers 15:36, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I should do some more work on the prototype. I've too many ideas about how it should work. Do you have any requests, what should I change next? Edward (talk)

Thanks, yes in approximate order of priority:

batching it by fifty searches is a bit of a pain, especially on things like pubic that I'd like to patrol frequently because half the time it is vandalism not a typo. But there are over a thousand articles containing pubic so currently I'm paging through over twenty screens most of which are empty to find a handful of examples.

The safe pages feature currently seems to be interlinked, so if a safe page is safe for one query it can't be made safe for others. That prevents the tool from being scaled as the more queries the more often that will be an issue.

The user needs to be able to start new queries.

The user needs to be able to set the wiki that the search will run on and any alternative or additional name spaces. For example most of my current searches could run on portal and draft space as well as mainspace. In the past I've searched for certain high risk phrases in userspace and it would be good if we could build searches that just went there.

I'm now using AWB for some searches, especially the ones with only a handful of safe phrases and few or no "safe pages". It does have a big advantage though in that if it is just a typo you can just click save and it fixes it. Though I suppose adding such a feature would be a big complication.

Is the safe phrase feature case sensitive? Some searches really need to differentiate between IT manager and it manager.

Thanks Ϣere SpielChequers 09:24, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've uploaded the code to github and added each of these as issues: https://github.com/EdwardBetts/pagepatrol/issues?q=is%3Aissue Edward (talk) 09:46, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm down to two issues left. Edward (talk) 18:39, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That really makes a difference, I can go through those searches very quickly now. Lifting the 50 limit and having separate safe page lists for each search have really speeded things up. Ϣere SpielChequers 18:40, 19 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Christian homeschooling listed at Redirects for discussion

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Removing "Find links tool" from Orphan template

Hi, I wanted to let you know that I have removed the "Find links tool" in Template:Orphan, as I see there are Google Ads on the tools page. Pointing to a revenue generating page is not without controversy for Wikipedians, so I'd like to hear your rationale first. Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 13:41, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fuzheado, I've removed the ads from find link. They'd been there since about 2010 and helped to fund the server where the tool is hosted. Thanks for getting in touch. Edward (talk) 14:16, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Security contractor listed at Redirects for discussion

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The Princess of Wales listed at Redirects for discussion

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Category:Critics of Brexit has been nominated for discussion

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Breakfast milk listed at Redirects for discussion

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Deletion of the page Alex Zhavoronkov

Dear Edward, Recently the page Alex Zhavoronkov was nominated for deletion. Can you please take a look if you have a minute?

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Yo Ho Ho

Ϣere SpielChequers is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec17a}}~~~~ to your friends' talk pages.

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Neutral notice

There is an RfC at an article you have edited, to which you may wish to add your input: Talk:American Flagg!#Request for comment. --Tenebrae (talk) 17:58, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Find link support for Assamese Wikipedia

Hello Edward, First of all I would like to thank you for developing the Find Link too which I have been using for English Wikipedia for quite some time. The tool works wonders! My main wiki project is Assamese Wikipedia (as.wikipedia.org namespace). Even though your tool supports many language, it is still missing Assamese language. We are a small Assamese wiki community and it would be a great help if you could add support for Assamese Wikipedia as well. I appreciate your work towards the Wiki community. Thank you and best regards, --SlowPhoton (talk) 04:26, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank for adding the support for Assamese. --SlowPhoton (talk) 10:10, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Guidance needed

Is there a way to consult with an administrator for guidance on handling a user that is substantially editing multiple pages in a way that really should be discussed on the talk page first? W4chris (talk) 17:53, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018

Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018

m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look.

Wikidata as Hub

One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites.

Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.

Wikipedia:External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by maxlath takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.

Links

What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation blogpost, 29 January 2018, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect, 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign
Newspeak House queries, created at 3 February 2018 event in London led by Magnus Manske
Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative, Wikipedia Signpost special report 5 February 2018, by JenOttowa
What is the Last Question?, 5 February 2018

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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018

Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018

Milestone for mix'n'match

Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, Magnus Manske, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite!

Links

Wikipedia goes 3D allowing users to upload .STLs for digital reference, Beau Jackson for 3dprintingindustry.com, February 22 2018
WikiCite report (video)
Formal publication and announcement of ISBN citation dataset, see Twitter post, February 23 2018
Plotting the Course Through Charted Waters, workshop on data visualization literacy from Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation
Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos, Nancy Cooey, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 12 2018
Why Should You Learn SPARQL? Wikidata! Mark Longair, blogpost November 29 2017
Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?, George Anadiotis for Big on Data, March 5 2018

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reliable sources saved to Internet Archive

Talk:Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse#Internet Archive

69.181.23.220 (talk) 10:10, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Autolinking "street photography"

I daresay this was well intended, but it wasn't beneficial. I can hardly believe that it was the work of an alert human; are you perhaps overreliant on automation? -- Hoary (talk) 02:40, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Hoary, you're right. I'll be more attentive with my editing in future. Edward (talk) 06:04, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

These things happen. Certainly I've perpetrated all sorts of horrors while half-asleep at the keyboard. Happy editing! -- Hoary (talk) 09:13, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018

The 100 Skins of the Onion

Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF.

From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

Links

Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus, CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto
Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset
Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!, Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by Sandra Fauconnier
Village pump discussion, Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are reaches conclusions
The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia, Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick
Tracing stolen bitcoin, blogpost 26 March 2018 by Ross J. Anderson

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Wikidata + map question

Hello! I hope this finds you well. I have just read your proposal on the GLAMWiki Conference submissions category, and I have realized you are savvy when it comes to maps and Wikidata. And I have been facing a real issue, which I hope you might help me to sort out. I have worked with students of mine and Wikimedia volunteers in Brazil to take pictures and create Wikidata items of monuments in São Paulo [1]. I'd love to be able to post this map with the query on pt.wikipedia --do you know if this is even possible? Thanks a lot and sorry for likely mistakes. Cheers. --Joalpe (talk) 00:50, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Joalpe: I'm not sure if this is possible or how it could be done. I'll do some more research and get back to you. Edward (talk) 11:29, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply, Edward. So far, I can easily create maps with local points on the frame (i.e. [2] or [3]), but they are of course not dynamically related to Wikidata. To some extent, what I am thinking of is not too different in principle to what the Listeria-bot does: the creation of a template (a table) fed dynamically with data from Wikidata. I have no idea on how to make this happen for maps, though. So thanks a lot for looking into this, as I believe this could lead to something really cool for the projects. --Joalpe (talk) 17:49, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

ScienceSource funded

The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.

A medical canon?

The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.

The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

Links

OpenRefine logo, courtesy of Google

d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data, Wikidata's multi-lingual dictionary project gets going
Ordia tool, a basic search interface for Wikidata lexemes and forms
OpenRefine tool 3.0, May update allows wrangling of tabular information into Wikidata
d:Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians pushes ahead with data modelling and imports
#1Lib1Ref Returns for a Second Time in 2018, IFLA blogpost 25 May 2018, second chance this year to participate in referencing Wikipedia

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Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018

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Respecting MEDRS

Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions.

Close to home also, a template, called {{medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter.

This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog.

Links

World Cup scorers bubble chart, by the league in which they play, query run on Wikidata
Timeline of discoveries of natural satellites in the solar system, query run on Wikidata
4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, National Library of Wales blogpost 27 June 2018, by Jason.nlw
The "deaditors" of Wikipedia, Hay Kranen blogpost, 15 June 2018
Six dimensions of open access, polemical tweet, 17 June 2018

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Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018

Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018

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Plugging the gaps – Wikimania report

Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.

Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume.

If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online".

Links

ScienceSource focus list (shortcut WD:SSFL on Wikidata), project to tag a first-pass open access medical bibliography on Wikidata, and also overcome the systematic biases in the medical literature by curation.
Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation blogpost 18 July 2018.
Wikipedia's upcoming Cape Town conference will tackle the issue of diversity, Jamie Matroos, 2 July 2018.
VideoWiki, a video version of Wikipedia.
Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books, by MEK, The Open Library Blog, 14 July 2018
More than 5,000 German scientists have published papers in pseudo-scientific journals, NDR, 19 July 2018.

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Baby balloon listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Baby balloon. Since you had some involvement with the Baby balloon redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. B dash (talk) 06:47, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion discussion about Mainlining

Hello, Edward,

I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Mainlining should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mainlining .

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

Thanks,

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Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018

Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018

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Neglected diseases

What's a Neglected Disease?, ScienceSource video

To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases.

A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's neglected diseases, where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list.

From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.

Links

Wikipedia, Wikidata, and citations, a census, August 2 2018, blogpost by Magnus Manske
The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source August 6, 2018, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on OCLC Research blog
Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL, August 1 2018, Parametric Thoughts blog
Newspapers On Wikipedia Update: Initial Wikidata Pass 9 August 2018, Mike Caulfield
Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Mike Thelwall, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, arxiv.org, submitted on 15 August 2018

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Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018

Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018

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The science publishing landscape

In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings.

The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the meal kit option, in the form of XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of slow food yourself. See Scholarly HTML for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web.

The argument from real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the principle of unripe time. On the other hand, discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from open access, we grok the Web, we have our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act.

Links

ImageGrid SPARQL query for the Art+Feminism focus list on Wikidata. Run and then scroll ...
The TABernacle tool for Wikidata editing, by Magnus Manske, has been upgraded. Demo with the ScienceSource focus list and main subjects: with a WiDar login you can edit directly in the table cells.
Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade, Michigan State University project for a linked open data platform. Quote: "Disambiguating and merging individuals across multiple datasets is nearly impossible given their current, siloed nature."
As the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project finishes its initial two-year cycle and moves into LD4P2, a list of its BIBFRAME and other RDF tools.
Machine Learning with and for Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs, detailed slide pack by Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim.
In Europe, Scientists Need to Share Their Research for Free if They Want Government Funding, Futurism, by Kristin House, 5 September 2018.

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Cambridge Wikidata Workshop 20 October

You might be interested. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:16, 6 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018

Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018

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Wikidata imaged

Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock.

Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists.

It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more.

And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more.

Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake.

Links

Now Wikidata is six, Signpost Special Report
Find out how @TheContentMine are attempting to mine scientific and medical literature to improve the accuracy of Wikipedia., Wikimedia UK tweet and video ScienceSource and the Semantic Web
sciencesource-pmc-licenses tool by Oravrattas to extract Creative Commons license information from PubMed Central pages, created at the Cambridge Wikidata Workshop
Whizzy use of SPARQL to map the London Underground system, whizzed past on Twitter.
Wikidata birthday events mapped by SPARQL, too
d:Wikidata:Sixth Birthday/Message from dev team

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Reskin listed at Redirects for discussion

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Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018

Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018

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WikiCite issue

GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California.

In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point.

Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.

Links

Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge, book chapter by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, metadata librarian and Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Product Manager, from Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge (2018)
LD4P and WikiCite: Opportunities for collaboration, WikiCite 2018 program abstract, Christine Fernsebner Eslao of Harvard Library Information and Technical Services and Michelle Futornick, Linked Data for Production Program Manager at Stanford University
Shell Lessons for Librarians, Library Carpentry lesson
At-risk content on Flickr, blogpost 3 November 2018, Andrew Gray
Toward an Abstract Wikipedia, recent white paper by Wikidata founder Denny Vrandečić (Google)

Account creation is now open on the ScienceSource wiki, where you can see SPARQL visualisations of text mining.

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Yo Ho Ho

Ϣere SpielChequers is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

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Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018

Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018

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Learning from Zotero

Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based language support.

Zotero logo

Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the zotkat tool from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects.

Zotero demo video

There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal mix'n'match import community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine.

Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.

Links

Zotero Comes to Google Docs, Zotero blogpost by Dan Stillman, 19 October 2018.
Category:Wikipedians who use Zotero
T115158 Write a Zotero translator and document process for creating new Zotero translator and getting it live in production, long Phabricator thread 2015–17.
Zotero Translators, documentation from zotero.org.
Home page on GitHub for Zotero translator Javascript
Example translator, for Wikisource.
m:Structured Data on Commons/Newsletter/2018-12-07

Diversitech, the latest ContentMine grant application to the Wikimedia Foundation, is in its community review stage until January 2.

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Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Edward a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! A 10 fireplane ^{Imform me} 17:28, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

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Everything flows (and certainly data does)

Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?).

Amazon Echo device using the Amazon Alexa service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an Android phone

Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making.

Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness.

There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.

Links

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day for 18th birthday celebrations
WMUK video page, with "fake news", Jimmy Wales, Wikidata and more (health warning for those with tune allergy)
Why Wikipedia’s Medical Content Is Superior, Stephen Harrison, 28 January 2019, Slate
Olivia Colman reveals struggle with Wikipedia over age, Naomi Gordon, 28 January 2019, harpersbazaar.com
Making Wikidata visible, Martin Poulter blogpost, 24 January 2019, Bodleian Digital Library
Inventory, Magnus Manske blogpost, 24 January 2019, on Wikidata tech support for an image donation by Cleveland Museum of Art

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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

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What is a systematic review?

Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources.

Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help?

File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg

2011 photograph by Bernard Schittny of the "Legacy Projects" group

Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen.

Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.

Links

Evidence-Based Practice: Appraise, resources page from Duke University Medical Library & Archives.
What should Cochrane do next?, Bad Science blogpost 5 November 2014, Ben Goldacre.
Cambridge (UK) Science Festival event, How do scientific discoveries become clinical medicine?, ScienceSource workshop for ContentMine 23 March 2019, with systematic review process diagram. Also on Eventbrite for tickets, taking place in Makespace, 16 Mill Lane.
PROSPERO database of PRISMA, for registration of systematic review protocols.
Process wonkery thread, wikien-l mailing list, September 2006.
Meta-Analysis, xkcd cartoon.

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Belated thanks

I just noticed that nearly a year ago you sourced a suitably licensed Flickr image for Airlink (helicopter shuttle service) and added it to the infobox. Many thanks for doing that: I had hunted for a suitable photo for ages, ever since I wrote the article! It significantly enhances the article, as the story can only really be put it context with a photo of it "in action". Sadly I was just too young to encounter it, although I was a fairly regular visitor to the Gatwick viewing gallery when that was open. Cheers, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 12:54, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

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When in the cloud, do as the APIs do

Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook.

File:Cloud-API-Logo.svg

Logo of Cloud API on Google Cloud Platform

The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API.

APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web.

Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do.

Links

Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative, 2016 paper by Andrawaag and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata
Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API
Dealing with the Rust, Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API
mw:API:RecentChanges, mediawiki.org page on the API for access to "recent changes" on a wiki
wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews, wikitech.wikimedia.org for the Pageview API, giving Wikimedia traffic information
xkcd cartoon, API Guide

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Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

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Completely clouded?

Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point.

Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around.

Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs.

What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.

Links

Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch by Headbomb.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable1
d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list: Beall's list, final version, matched into Wikidata.
SPARQL query for Quackwatch: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals", under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)".
SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata.
d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard, metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from PubMed and PubMed Central.

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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Edward,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.

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Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Text mining display of noun phrases from the US Presidential Election 2012

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Semantic Web and TDM – a ContentMine view

Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while.

It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining).

Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?"

The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata.

The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.

ScienceSourceReview, introductory video: but you need run it from the original upload file on Commons

Links for participation

http://sciencesource-review.wmflabs.org/, review tool link in the left-hand sidebar at http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page

The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue.

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Wikimania 2019

Dear Edward, I would like to send you information about your talk in the Partnerships Space at Wikimania 2019, but I do not have your email address. Please get in touch with me at atarkowski@centrumcyfrowe.pl - thank you, Tarkowski (talk) 14:54, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your OSM-Wikidata tool, a suggestion

Hi Ed, I enjoyed your talk today about your OSM-Wikidata tool tremendously and plan to use the tool in the future. Discussing with a friend, we wondered if it would be possible to allow the user to edit Wikidata coordinates in cases of discrepancy. Presumably, OSM coordinates are more precise in most cases. Do you see any issues with this, or is it maybe already a planned feature? Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 17:36, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@AxelBoldt: I'm glad that you enjoyed the talk. Copying coordinates from OSM to Wikidata isn't allowed because the licenses aren't compatible. If we started copying coordinates from OSM then we'd be making a derived work. Edward (talk) 08:38, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OSM-Wikidata linking

Hey. Thanks, you tool is really amazing. May you also add links to Wikipedia into OSM tags? 193.11.92.48 (talk) 16:05, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	This is for your tool. I have been making extensive use of it. It is a wonderful tool. Or weapon. Please add a "random article" button. ♠Vami _IV†♠ 08:37, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Vami IV: Thanks, I really appreciate this. I've added a random article link. Edward (talk) 11:28, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sweet, thank you. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 05:26, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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ARTICLE REVIEW

Hi Edward Betts,

Could you please help me review my new articles: O. A. Akinyeye Abosede George MBM Avoseh

Thanks.

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Humanitarian Wikidata

Hi Edward, I just noticed your Wikimania 2019 session Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata and was wondering whether you had seen WikiProject Humanitarian Wikidata as well as Wikimedians for Disaster Response. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 17:58, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Mietchen: This is interesting, I hadn't seen either of these. Thanks for sharing them with me. Edward (talk) 21:27, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Dablinks like tool

After your great work last week at Newspeak House, I was wondering if the dablinks like tool was ready for any testing?— Rod ^talk 20:03, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is what I have so far, it isn't finished yet. https://dab.edwardbetts.com/ Edward (talk) 07:51, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - let me know when it is up & running & I am happy to do any testing.— Rod ^talk 07:56, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Rodw: I've finally implemented save. It is very rough, but it is usable. I need to write some documentation. Edward (talk) 21:17, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but it currently will not load for me.— Rod ^talk 07:22, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Try now. Edward (talk) 08:24, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The list now loads but if I click on one I get the same "Software error: KeyError" as I did before (Error in function "__getitem__": Arguments(args=['self', 'key'], varargs=None, varkw=None)).— Rod ^talk 09:06, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed that bug. Edward (talk) 13:46, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - having got past OAuth, I now can see the highlighted links on an article. It would be nice if a right click from the list on the left took you to the link listed rather than another version of the highlighted entry. I tried to make my first edit using the dab mechanic tool - on Herbie Crichlow changing "De De" to [[Denise Lopez (Swedish singer)|De De]] & I get "Software error: KeyError" including "Error in function "edit_page": Arguments(args=['title', 'text', 'summary', 'baserevid', 'token'], varargs=None, varkw=None)" followed by a load of code.— Rod ^talk 15:29, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to be away for the next month & unable to do much in the way of testing. If you manage to sort the save bug, I would suggest posting a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation and ask others to try it out.— Rod ^talk 13:23, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if you have had a chance to work on this while I have been away, but yesterday at a wikimeet I went to show your new tool to User:RexxS & User:The wub. The link now just says "Service Unavailable, The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later." Any idea why?— Rod ^talk 11:28, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I mentioned your work at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#WP:INTDABLINK being used crudely where there was a discussion about the need for new tools - hope that is OK?— Rod ^talk 15:57, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Good morning and thank you for creating and maintaining Find Link! Women in Red is now running monthly tips in its newsletters. I suggested saying something like "Use the Find Link tool to de-orphan your articles" which they liked...but I was wondering if it's ok with you to link to Find Link in the first place, and if so, what is the right URL to use? Would it be User:Edward/Find link ? Cielquiparle (talk) 07:24, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sorry for not replying sooner. Yes, fine to link to it. User:Edward/Find link is a good one to use for now. I should make a page for it in the Wikipedia namespace. Edward (talk) 19:30, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Find Link User script

Hi @Edward, I've created a user script to help with using Find Link. Hope that's alright with you. 1AmNobody24 (talk) 06:45, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@1AmNobody24: This is great! I love it. Good work. Edward (talk) 20:44, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Poop patrol

Hi Wdward, hope all is well, I've been getting a lot of

"sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (psycopg2.OperationalError) connection to server at "localhost" (127.0.0.1), port 5432 failed: server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request.
SSL SYSCALL error: Connection reset by peer
connection to server at "localhost" (127.0.0.1), port 5432 failed: FATAL:  the database system is in recovery mode

(Background on this error at: https://sqlalche.me/e/14/e3q8)

Errors recently, and was wondering whether this was at my end or yours? Ϣere SpielChequers 09:09, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. The database is unhappy. I'll try and fix it. Edward (talk) 08:38, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is fixed. Edward (talk) 12:49, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou very much. Ϣere SpielChequers 11:32, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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